Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Waiting in Line. By suggesting a plan that would end such bounties, Nixon angered no one more than his fellow Republicans in Congress. G.O.P. House Leader Gerald Ford told Nixon: "Our people have been waiting for eight years to get in front of the line on postal patronage. And they are bitter that a Republican White House wants to turn off the spigot before they have even had a drink...
...Bonn since Henry Cabot Lodge left in January. President Nixon has looked hard for a replacement, and has been turned down by at least three candidates. The situation in Bonn underscores the new Administration's difficulty in filling even the most prized ambassadorial posts. At week's end, it was reported that Nixon had finally found a man for Bonn. But even so, 18 ambassadorships remain vacant. And Nixon has retained about 60 holdovers, including the significantly high number of 18 political appointees...
...Asian Tito. This may be fantasy. Still, U.S. intervention may have helped to draw the Chinese into the war. The material aid that Peking has furnished Hanoi must give the Chinese a measure of control over North Viet Nam. There is no sign yet that Hanoi is eager to end the war or settle it in Paris, but presumably the Chinese are in a position to put further pressure on Ho Chi Minh to remain adamant...
...NCAA does not remove the ruling from the books, it could mean the end of the Eastern League. Last week, members of the Princeton baseball team asked their Athletic Department to withdraw the Tiger nine from the EIBL. The players reasoned that Princeton could play the exact same schedule as an independent and be selected by the District II playoff committee...
...Kurt Kiesinger. An open letter to Kiesinger, written to him just before he took office, is reprinted in this book. In a later speech, Grass notes that Kiesinger never answered the letter. He damns Kiesinger not so much for his membership in the Nazi party from 1933 to the end, but for his gall in then, without any reference to his past, becoming leader of the West German Republic, which is supposedly trying to live down the past...